It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

Nerve-wracking suspense surrounds The Bedford Incident, the tale of a US naval vessel on a routine NATO patrol that ends up in a freakish showdown with a Russian submarine. Richard Widmark is Capt Eric Finlander, the maniacal commander and Sidney Poitier is Ben Munceford, a photojournalist assigned to record a 'typical' mission. His moral indignation is put to the test by the captain's obsession with forcing the sub to the surface and several crew members are driven to the brink of of nervous ex find out more...